Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
Raoul VaneigemWe can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
Raoul VaneigemDaily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
Raoul VaneigemThe organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.
Raoul Vaneigem